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The sun is a ____________________ , and it is very important for our planet earth . It gives us light and heat . However , Earth is not alone . It shares the sun with seven other ____________________ . Together , these planets revolve around the sun in a solar ____________________ . Other bodies travel in this solar system , such as moons , asteroids , and ____________________ . They all move around the sun because the sun ? s ____________________ is very strong .
Each planet ? s path around the sun is called an ____________________ . The planets that are closer to the sun have smaller orbits , so they take less time to go around it . Mercury takes 88 days to complete one orbit . Earth completes one orbit in 365 days , or one ____________________ . Neptune ? s orbit takes 60 , 200 days , or almost 165 years !
Each planet in our solar system is ____________________ . For example , Mercury is the smallest planet . It has lots of ____________________ , just like our moon . Jupiter is the biggest planet . Its diameter is eleven times bigger than Earth ? s . Saturn has giant rings of ____________________ around it . Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun .
Mars is a neighboring planet , and scientists are learning a lot about it . They send many space ____________________ to Mars . A space probe called Curiosity landed on Mars on August 6 , 2012 . Curiosity is as big as a car , and it moves over the ____________________ of Mars . It recently found rocks that had strange shapes . Running water made these shapes . This is an important discovery . Space probes like Curiosity continue to explore the planets , moons , and other bodies in our solar system . If technology continues to grow , we will travel to these places ourselves .
Iron and rock make up most of the four smaller inner planets of our solar system . Gas and water make up most of the four larger outer planets . This means that you can stand on the surface of Earth , but you can ? t stand on Saturn . In ____________________ , if you tried to stand on Saturn , you would sink down to the ____________________ of the planet .
Drawings of our solar system show the planets close to the sun . However , the ____________________ between the planets and the sun is very far . For example , it would take 176 years to drive a car from Earth to the sun . It would take 5 , 300 years to drive from Neptune to the sun !
____________________ think that there are many solar systems in our Milky Way galaxy . However , our solar system is special to us . It is our ____________________ .